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Having gone out to work on a friend's computer last night at about quarter to ten leads me to think about time management. Not as related to that event specifically, but in general. I seem to have a hard time making time for a lot of things I want to do. I got a comment on my last entry from ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
evilviolist and I started thinking this morning about the geo-caching I'd like to do with him and where in my schedule I'd fit it. There are a lot of other people I'd like to get together with too who probably think I'm ignoring them. megmoves, posicat, my brothers and family, crim_ferret, and wyldkyttin just to name a few.
I've met so many wonderful, interesting people lately. I am continually looking back at my experience in high school when I knew only a handful of people (I remember the names of three people out of the whole body of students I went to class with), and it makes me very conscious of how lucky I am to have met the people I know now; to have so many to call friend. I hope it doesn't every appear that I take this for granted. Each and every one of my friends is truly special to me.
That's one of the more important of the many reasons I'm glad that life seems to be settling down a bit for Moira and I. She wrote something in a response to someone's journal about feeling like the uncertainty of not having a real, non-temporary, out-of-the-house job and of not having enough money to not have to make budgetary plans around going out for dinner with friends has left her feeling out of touch with the people around us, and I feel largely the same way.
But as I noted, it seems like that situation is finally resolving itself, to my tremendous relief. That should make it easier to say 'Yeah; I can go out and do that.'
Which means the major remaining obstacle is making time away from the rest of the things I need to do. I had started a spreadsheet a while ago to itemize the things that I need to do on a daily, weekly, and monthly basis. I need to revisit that project, finish it, and print a few copies for the refrigerator. Breaking chores into manageable chunks will keep my mostly-linear brain on track to get them done, instead of just considering the whole list at once and discarding it as unmanageable. I really think I can pare it all down into just fifteen or twenty minutes after work each day to keep everything in order.
Together, I think Moira and I have processed nearly ten loads of laundry through our new washing machine since the beginning of the weekend, and she spent most of her day yesterday cleaning up her closet and dresser, to huge effect. While we still have some fabric littering the bedroom floor, the situation is much improved. There really is something to be said about the feng shui principle about clutter in a house tying up and blocking energy flow. Whether or not it's all in the head, I can say that I've felt more up and awake today and yesterday morning than I have in a long time. Usually I'm too tired to do anything more on the way to work then just sleep; I certainly wouldn't be sitting and typing journal entries. I haven't been getting to sleep any earlier either, so I attribute the positive attitude to simply having a clean, pretty space to start the day in.
I guess what I'm getting at is just that, in a little while, once I get caught up and on top of things, house-wise, money-wise, and time-wise, I'd really like to see more of you more often. I've had trouble finding time for other people, and even myself sometimes, and that's not a state I want to be in. I'm going to do better.
evilviolist and I started thinking this morning about the geo-caching I'd like to do with him and where in my schedule I'd fit it. There are a lot of other people I'd like to get together with too who probably think I'm ignoring them. megmoves, posicat, my brothers and family, crim_ferret, and wyldkyttin just to name a few. I've met so many wonderful, interesting people lately. I am continually looking back at my experience in high school when I knew only a handful of people (I remember the names of three people out of the whole body of students I went to class with), and it makes me very conscious of how lucky I am to have met the people I know now; to have so many to call friend. I hope it doesn't every appear that I take this for granted. Each and every one of my friends is truly special to me.
That's one of the more important of the many reasons I'm glad that life seems to be settling down a bit for Moira and I. She wrote something in a response to someone's journal about feeling like the uncertainty of not having a real, non-temporary, out-of-the-house job and of not having enough money to not have to make budgetary plans around going out for dinner with friends has left her feeling out of touch with the people around us, and I feel largely the same way.
But as I noted, it seems like that situation is finally resolving itself, to my tremendous relief. That should make it easier to say 'Yeah; I can go out and do that.'
Which means the major remaining obstacle is making time away from the rest of the things I need to do. I had started a spreadsheet a while ago to itemize the things that I need to do on a daily, weekly, and monthly basis. I need to revisit that project, finish it, and print a few copies for the refrigerator. Breaking chores into manageable chunks will keep my mostly-linear brain on track to get them done, instead of just considering the whole list at once and discarding it as unmanageable. I really think I can pare it all down into just fifteen or twenty minutes after work each day to keep everything in order.
Together, I think Moira and I have processed nearly ten loads of laundry through our new washing machine since the beginning of the weekend, and she spent most of her day yesterday cleaning up her closet and dresser, to huge effect. While we still have some fabric littering the bedroom floor, the situation is much improved. There really is something to be said about the feng shui principle about clutter in a house tying up and blocking energy flow. Whether or not it's all in the head, I can say that I've felt more up and awake today and yesterday morning than I have in a long time. Usually I'm too tired to do anything more on the way to work then just sleep; I certainly wouldn't be sitting and typing journal entries. I haven't been getting to sleep any earlier either, so I attribute the positive attitude to simply having a clean, pretty space to start the day in.
I guess what I'm getting at is just that, in a little while, once I get caught up and on top of things, house-wise, money-wise, and time-wise, I'd really like to see more of you more often. I've had trouble finding time for other people, and even myself sometimes, and that's not a state I want to be in. I'm going to do better.